File:Frohawk Dodo.png

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Note: This historical image is not a factually accurate paleontological restoration.

Reason: The tail appears to have been curled over the back in life, according to most authors, so this image is partially inaccurate. In life, the nostrils were also vertical slits, rather than horizontal.

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English: Plate 24 from Rothschild's Extinct birds (1907). The dodo (Raphus cucullatus) was a flightless bird endemic to the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius. This was based on the picture by Roelandt Savery in Berlin, but the wings, tail and bill have been based partly on Pierre Witthoos' picture of the white Dodo, and partly from anatomical examination.
Date Book publication: 1907, painting: 1905
Source Extinct birds : an attempt to unite in one volume a short account of those birds which have become extinct in historical times : that is, within the last six or seven hundred years : to which are added a few which still exist, but are on the verge of extinction. By Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild (8 February 1868 – 27 August 1937). (https://archive.org/stream/extinctbirdsatte00roth#page/n327/mode/2up)
Author Frederick William Frohawk (16 July 1861 - 10 December 1946), an English zoological artist and lepidopterist.

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